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Show V The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand January 29, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 3 Bicentennial... What Do We Celebrate? What is it that we will be celebrating on July 4, 1976? One of the nations most distinguished constitutional lawyers, Dean Clarence Manion, formerly of Notre Dame Law School, notes as follows: The big, upcoming Bicentennial fixed is CORNER and exclusively upon July 4, 1976, as the directly two-hundred- the EDUCATION birthday of th most Erma J. Christensen important, proclamation of religious and political principle ever officially God-inspir- ed declared to foundation be the a new for The book to be reviewed this week is being used at Farnsworth Elementary. Granite School District (Salt Lake County), and is also on the State Board approved list for other schools. Look for it in 6th grade. To Turn A Stone is published by Ginn & Company, a subsidiary of Xerox. (Xerox Company is on the list of groups dedicatedly pushing SIECUS - sex instruction for all children. See The Child Seducers by John Steinbacher.) To Turn A Stone is just what its name implies, turn a stone and you will find a viper. The whole book, with one or two stories that could possibly be inoffensive, but on the whole is a viper with gross, nation. The first patriotic duty of every American now is to keep all the activities of this upcoming Bicentennial focused directly upon this historic document and to prevent either careless or deliberately contrived plans from turning our attention, devotion and determination into peripheral, diversionary or possibly even destructive channels and activities. July 4 is memorable as the greatest date in modernistic American history solely and only because it was the day the American Declaration of Independence was adopted and signed by all members of the Continental Congress. At its very outset the Declaration traces our title to national independence to Almighty God Himself. Before we are ten lines deep into the document, we find that We hold these truths to be that all men are created. In other words, God exists. You will observe that no evidence is offered to support the existence of God. His existence is said to self-evide- nt be self-eviden- For t. members of the Continental Congress no evidence was needed. All of them knew that God exists not merely as - matter of their religious faith, but as an obvious matter of fact. Every one of a these Continental Congressmen believed in the truths stated in nt the Declaration as confidently as he believed that he was alive when he subscribed to them. Whoever reads the Declaration from beginning to end will realize that it was and remains today one of the most profound and consequential acts of religious faith in all history. The signers went on to declare that all men are created The equal. Declaration does not say that all men are born equal, because obviously they are not. Our Creator gives each of us a special and obviously different personality. To prove that, take a frequent look at the fingerprints of yours. It is your God-giveindividuating trademark, which distinguishes you and each of us from every other n, ( ontiimrd un pagr IS illustrations, purposely horrible and intended to depress sixth grade students. The pictures in some instances, cover two pages each, and the print runs down through the pictures. This has been noted by Rhoda Lorand, child psychologist, as a procedure to deliberately interfere with childrens visual capacities. One picture is a mans whole face, his mouth opened wide enough to hold the content of a page of writing. There are also pictures of sea devils (manta rays), vipers, illegible figures of people and scenes. The first story is about Charley, a lonely little boy, an old man who lives in his rent free cave, and the boys gang. The old man when self-evide- ON patiently , and beautifully sculptured the figures of great men on the sandstone walls of his cave. When Charley told his gang about the big cave, they went into it, destroyed the old mans figures, and threw him out because they wanted their own clubhouse. The story ends on a note of revenge and despair. The questions, as usual, put the children into the shoes of the gang, Charley, and the old man. The second story is called Two Vipers. It is a depressing story about Eytan. a little crippled boy who lived in a Kibbutz against his will. It tells of his adventure in the pear orchard picking pears, his humiliation by one of the other pickers named Achim who calls him a cripple, and accuses him of picking the pears without stems. Eytan is driven out of the orchard by the others, and he proceeds down the road, sadly and bitterly. A young girl was found by Eytan walking in the road who has been stung by h viper. With a dead branch and a rock. Eytan ran to the girl and helped her. She took out her jackknife and started to cut deep slashes in her leg where four ugly punctures were oozing blood. Eytan took the knife from her and set about doing it for her. Following is a quote from page 44: It was hideous; hideous to feel the knife cutting through skin and flesh, hideous to hear her gasp and feel her fingers dig into his own leg. hideous to see the blood gush forth: and when he was finished he was in nearly as bad a state as Yacl. His stomach heaved. And there was still thfc viper to find and kill. The children watched for the mate and bashed him to a pulp, the little girl more frightened of Eytan than the snake, and both of them became quietly and efficiently sick indeed." The story ends on a depressing note, the boy revengefully remembering that there were two vipers, the boy who publicly humiliated him that morning, and the viper he had killed on the road. The third story is about another lonely little boy being dragged through the water by a huge Devil Fish or manta ray. He wonders when his lungs will burst with water and he will die. The whole story tells of the boys struggle to remain alive in the water and get away from the fish. Illustrations of the horrible huge fish are on 8 of the 14 pages of the story. The questions at the end put the reader in the shoes of the boy. All these stories are preoccupied with death and survival. 6th grade children are not ready for this kind of problem solving. Their pleasure in reading is at stake in having to get a grade from this kind of depressing reading. No wonder the kids are growing up into illiterates! (Authors note.) The Piece de resistance is written by Henry (pages 258-26constitutionalist Commager, and great Pinko. (To prove my point, last evening this writer saw a special program with Mr. Com- ON COURSE) with Capt. Joe H. Ferguson THE HIGH COST OF MEDICAL TREATMENT Captain Joe H. Ferguson DOCTORS NOT PRIMARILY TO BLAME The recent uproar about the skyrocketing malpractice insurance has brought many accusations from many quarters regarding the cause of the problem. Some accuse greedy insurance companies. Some accuse the doctors. In the opinion of this writer, neither is to blame. The accusation that the insurance companies are to blame implies that there is no competition for lower premium rates among the companies. Such is not true. The accusation that the doctors are to blame implies that all doctors in the country have suddenly become incompetent or irresponsible. Such is not true. The insurance companies have been forced to drastically raise their premiums because of the drastic increase in sums awarded by the courts to litigants against doctors. Consequently, the doctors have had to increase their fees to patients because of having to pay up to $20,000 per year for malpractice premiums. This situation affects every person in the country who desires or ever will desire medical treatment. THE COURTS ARE TO BLAME 5) mager. Frank Church and commentator discussing the absolute necessity of giving away CIA secrets to the general public. They mentioned the horrible military takeover by the Junta that routed the duly elected dictator, the Marxist, Allende!) The story is as follows: This is the story of UNICEF. And the rights of children, as unanimously voted and passed by United Nations! Quote from the stoiy: It tells the story of children everywhere. Sick children, crippled children, blind children. Children without homes, motherless children, children wandering along the dusty roads with nowhere to go. children alone and lost. Who would save the children? Who could resist the cry of the children? Everybody wanted to help the children...but how? It carries its own UNICEF! magic... .It was a great battle the battle disease against and hunger and UNICEF won. .. New hope for the children of the world!" Page 266. The Rights of the Children Protection, opportunities, facilities to help them develop physically, mentally, morally, spiritually, and socially, in freedom and dignity. Social security, including enough food and housing, recreation and medical services. Protection from all forms of neglect, cruelty and exploitation. from Protection racial, religious and other dis- crimination... To those of us who are com- pletely disillusioned with UNICEF and their communist leanings, the children of this nation are being taught that Big Brother Comrade United Nations intends to provide all these precious rights for them.. ..Need elaborate? 1 One case in point might serve to illustrate the real cause of the problem. One night Doctor Willard Skousen of Mesa,. Arizona was called to the hospital to treat a patient with a gunshot wound. It seems the patient, a married man, had been out with his girlfriend. An argument ensued and she shot him. When the doctor arrived at the hospital and examined the patient, he decided the wound demanded the attention of a specialist. He then phoned and arranged for a specialist. The patient was given a blood transfusion and transferred by ambulance to another hospital. Due to the seriousness of the wound, however, the patient died enroute or shortly after arrival. The mans widow filed a malpractice suit against Doctor Skousen. It was proven in the trial that the doctor had taken the course of action that was in the best interest of the patient. The jury even admitted that there was no error on Doctor Skousens part. But they rendered judgment in the amount of $80,000 against him anyway. They merely stated that, ...the children need an education and we are going to give them one. It is, of course, admirable to desire an education for children. But to levy judgment against an innocent party is not charity it is thievery. It is just plain dishonesty. And that, folks, is basically the reason for the skyrocketing cost of malpractice insurance and also medical fees dishonesty on the part of jurors in malpractice suits. And the problem will never be resolved satisfactorily until public attention is focused on this fact. Might as well start now. LET THE PEOPLE BE SERVED How can a strike by public employees be in the public interest? How can it avoid being against the public interest? And if not in the public interest, why should it be legalized? And if against the public interest, why shouldnt it be illegal? The mm Independent Salt Lake City, Utah The Utah Independent is published by the Utah Independent each Tuesday at 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Yearly subscription rate is $10.00 by surface mail in the United States, $15.00 foreign. 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